John Langley, the creator of the long-running FOX program, COPS...says he's irked by some media critics who accuse the show of perpetuating stereotypes about "people of color" by depicting a disproportionate percentage of minority suspects. Au Contraire, Langley protests, he intentionally shows an inordinate number of white suspects in order to side-step the facts. "I show more white people than, statistically, what the truth is."

I once saw a stat on this site that took my breath away.
If you took out black and hispanic crime verses only white
crime compared to only the white population. There was
virtually no crime in the country.

You'll have to document that "genetic predisposition for violence" thing. Something often in the past alleged of Irish, Scot-Irish (Ulster) and even German people ("The Blonde Beast") --- but overall eludes genetic proof.

My money's on culture, the most important element of which is family tructure. At the time of the Harlem Renaissance ----an historic upsurge in African-American creativity in the arts, music, drama, literature, scholarship and civic leadership --- 90% of the black childred in Harlem lived in intact- married- mother'n'father households. Now the statistic is almost exactly reversed.

Believe me, family structure is the biggie. That, and active membership in a Christian church.

Understand that publishing on the genetic link to violence is a career ending event, so what literature is published is pretty oblique. but, there is no question about it. Start by Googling MAO-A and gene and you will get the drift.

Professors are fired and funding lost for any mention of this verboten topic. Like the Bell Curve was buried three decades ago.

I once saw a stat on this site that took my breath away. If you took out black and hispanic crime verses only white crime compared to only the white population. There was virtually no crime in the country.

Yes, crime is mostly cultural. If you want to predict the crime rates of a particular group in America, look at the crime rates of the country that they or their ancestors came from. You will find that they are very close.

As an example, homicide rates are some of the most accurate statistics that we can track, so they bypass a lot of error producing problems with gathering and reporting statistics. The rate of homicides of Japanese Americans is slightly lower than the rate of Japanese in Japan, which is quite low indeed.

Cultural rather than genetic and the "black" culture of the present was constructed by the Left in America. Black crime stats were much lower relative to the present in the forties and fifties when blacks were making the move out of the still relatively impoverished south into the northern manufacturing cities. They brought their family values and Christianity with them and were working up through the system as all immigrant or quasi immigrant in this case, populations have done in the USofA until they hit the mud of the War on Poverty and the mud got thicker and thicker until it more resembles cured cement.

I’m not responding to all of you on this genetic predisposition thing. Just start reading on it and you will see. It is indisputable. Just get on Google for a bit and then come back and insult me with some information where MAO A gene patterns in black populations has been refuted as a genetic marker to violence. I think you will re-assess your skepticism.

Um, no , why don’t YOU provide the statistics, seeing as you’re one of the ones making the ridiculous “genetic” argument. And while you’re at it, make sure you do a “compare and contract” to all those killed in Europe (whites killing whites, if I remember correctly) during WW1 and WW2. Or how about the American Civil War? Need I continue?

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posted on 06/01/2011 7:38:01 AM PDT
by safeasthebanks
("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)

I’m not even sure, however, that your studies of MAO-A gene patterns is conclusive of a genetic predisposition to violence. Genetic isolation and cultural isolation go hand in hand, having a common cause, but not a causATIVE relationship.

IE, there is a correlation between MAO-A gene patterns and the black population, and there is a correlation between violent cultural tendencies and the black population,
but there is/may be no _causation_ between MAO-A gene patterns and violent tendencies.

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posted on 06/01/2011 7:38:49 AM PDT
by MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)

Judge Judy and other court shows have what seem to be an inordinate number of blacks suing one another. What I notice, however, is that dumb doesn’t discriminate. Whites on camera suffer from the same ailment. It’s sad, though, to see the English language mutilated so badly on a regular basis.

Didn’t Philly recently complain that an inordinate number of black crimes were being reported/prosecuted? It gave the city and black residents a bad reputation. Maybe businesses fleeing the city, etc.. Urban blight, Detroit here we come.

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